29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
8:54 p.m.
Allegedly, map printers (cartographers) have errors in
their
street maps to help identify blatant copies. I guess they figure
the effort to verify all of the street names, etc. makes it
unlikely that a counterfeiter would catch the deliberate error...
not sure how this has changed with more modern technology.
Monmonier says that it continues.
In XenoCopy, I include the formats of two machines that a friend designed
that never went into production, or even left his workbench. In addition,
for a while I had a misspelling of a machine name, due to poor
handwriting. They showed up on a couple of competing products (NOT
Chuck's).
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com